Indianapolis International has tentative plans to install floor-level sinks for Muslim drivers in a new taxi staging area. The sinks would more easily permit them to wash their feet before prayer. The plan has drawn complaints from some local citizens who contend that such an accommodation for a religious group at a public facility would be unconstitutional.

After weeks of legal wrangling over whether lethal injection can cause a painful death, three-time murderer David Dawson took a deep breath early this morning, snored once, and was pronounced dead six minutes after the drugs that killed him began flowing into his veins.